The online bookstore for actors
The Actors Bookstore Online
 

Searching for really good acting books? Method stuff? You´re welcomed. Here You get highly recommended books by the Actors Workshop Vienna.
And You can buy them right here, Online! We collected some of the finest acting books in the world.
And what, if You are looking for other books not listed in our bookstore? I mean any book, not only acting stuff!

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The books of Eric Morris

Eric Morris developed the most complete system of acting ever created. And, the even more important task, his process of acting really works. He himself worked with Strasberg, but he was not confident with the sayings, that method acting on a high artistic level only works for a chosen few of  highly talented actors. He searched for the reasons and developed literally hundreds of exercises, helping actors to create true reality on stage and in front of a camera. He invented a revolutionary new way of method acting, deeply rooted in Stanislawskys and Strasbergs method, but his system became a new great step in developing the art of acting. He got extraordinary results, thrilling results. There is agreat number of Hollywoods first class actors, who found the cornerstone of their art in the process Eric Morris taught them. Jack Nicholson, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Melanie Griffith, Harry Dean Stanton, Teri Garr are just a few of his students.
   I do not know any other book of acting, teaching a functionable approach You can use in the professional work as an actor. I don´t talk of inspiration, the books are full of inspiring moments, but what I mean is, You can indeed learn a process of acting from those books.  
No Acting Please, Eric Morris
Being & Doing, Eric Morris
Irreverent Acting, Eric Morris
Acting from the Ultimate Consciousness of Mind , Eric Morris
Acting, Imaging and the Unconscious
Richard Boleslavsky: The First Six Lessons
The first six lessons
Richard Boleslavskys: The First Six Lessons is one of the most inspiring acting books. The book is written in the thirties, but it is still full of insight. Any actor can profit from those lessons. And beside being a standard acting book, it is a really entertaining book. Although it is written in dialogues, it seem to me like a novel. It is a big favorite of my acting books.
 

The Method Corner

here You can find method acting classics

Lee Strasberg
A Dream of Passion : The Development of the Method
 

Constantine Stanislavsky

An Actor Prepares

Building a Character
 Creating a Role
My Life in Art
 Stanislavsky : A Life by David Magarshack
 

Michael Chekhov

On the Technique of Acting :
The First Complete Edition of Chekhov's Classic to the Actor

 

Some Plays presented by the Actors Bookstore Online

Classics modern and old:

 

Willy Russell
Breezeblock Park, Our Day Out, Stags and Hens, Educating Rita
Educating Rita is a marvellous play about the Liverpoolian hairdresser Rita, starting an academical carreer and a professor of English literature, called Frank. The education of Rita will at the same time become the education of Frank. Special suggestion for actors, directors, or just readers of Educating Rita: Read some of the books, which have a great impact on the characters of the play. Do a great background research and have a lot of fun with it!

Rita Mae Brown: Rubyfruit Jungle

William Blake Three Full-Color Books : Songs of Innocence, Songs of Experience, the Marriage of Heaven and Hell

D.H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover

D.H. Lawrence Women in Love

 

 

William Inge
Four Plays : Come Back Little Sheba, Picnic, Bus Stop and the Dark at the Top of the Stairs Our Price: $9.60
 

 

Christopher Durang
Complete Full-Length Plays 1975-1995 (Contemporary Playwrights Series)
Our Price: $35.00
Explains It All for You : Six Plays Our Price: $10.36
Baby With the Bathwater and Laughing Wild: Two Plays Our Price: $8.00
 

 

Tennessee Williams
Four Plays : Summer and Smoke/Orpheus Descending/Suddenly Last Summer/Period of Adjustment/4 Plays in 1 Book Our Price: $5.56
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Our Price: $4.79
The Glass Menagerie Our Price: $4.79
 

 

Arthur Miller
Death of a Salesman : Certain Private Conversations in Two Acts and a Requiem (Penguin Plays) Our Price: $6.36
The Crucible : A Play in Four Acts Our Price: $6.36
Sam Shepard
Fool for Love and Other Plays Our Price: $10.36
 

 

Ken Kesey/Dale Wasserman
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest : A Play in Three Acts Our Price: $5.50
 

 

Edward Albee
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Our Price: $2.00
 

 

David Rabe
In the Boom Boom Room/Revised to the Original Two Acts Our Price: $7.96
Neil Simon
The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Volume 1 Our Price: $15.16
The Collected Plays of Neil Simon Volume 2 Our Price: $15.96
Agatha Christie
Mousetrap and Other Plays Our Price: $5.59
 

 

Joseph Kesselring, Sidney Kingsley and Chodorov
Three Plays About Crime and Criminals Arsenic and Old Lace, Detective Story, Kind Lady Our Price: $4.40
 

 

George Bernard Shaw
Saint Joan, A Chronicle Play in Six Scenes and an Epilogue Our Price: $7.16

Der historische Prozeß als Hintergrund:

The Trial of Joan of Arc (Famous Trials Series) Our Price: $22.45

 

 

Anton Chekhov
Cherry Orchard : A Comedy in Four Acts Our Price: $9.95
Federico Garcia Lorca
Three Plays : Blood Wedding/Yerma/the House of Bernarda Alba Our Price: $12.80
Tony Kushner
Angels in America : A Gay Fantasia on National Themes/Boxed Set
biographies
Brando : The Biography by Peter Manso Our Price: $20.97
Jack Nicholson : The Life and Times of an Actor on the Edge by Peter Thompson
Our Price: $15.75
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Oliver Sacks
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat : And Other Clinical Tales
Our Price: $10.40
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